The best thing about Jet's debut album Get Born (Elektra, 2003) was that the band managed to sound like everyone else: AC/DC, the Sex Pistols, Oasis, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles.
And for the first 29 seconds of their sophomore effort Shine On, Jet once again plays it a little too close to its influential predecessors. But after the short prologue, the album moves right into "Holiday," a track with thick, hard rhythm, a scratchy vocal melody and authentic crunch that sounds very much like, well, Jet.
Shine On showcases the older, wiser and more original sound of the Melbourne quartet, most evident on the first single, "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is."
The album, which the band proclaims is "five times better" than their first, embraces its own sound, but doesn't quite divorce itself from the successful ingredients of its biggest influences.
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